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TULSA, OKLA. (KTUL) — Repairs to multiple county overpass bridges along Interstate 44 and the Will Rogers Turnpike are nearing completion after an over-height commercial truck struck several structures earlier this month, transportation officials said. Work continues Monday on the N. 4300 Road overpass northeast of State Highway 28, where eastbound I-44 traffic remains reduced to one lane. The bridge is still closed to local traffic but is expected to reopen by Monday afternoon. Crews are also preparing for overnight repairs at the N. 429 Road overpass near Adair. Eastbound lanes of I-44 will be narrowed to one lane beginning...

California's expected decision to restore contested licenses sets stage for constitutional showdown over CDL authority California is expected to begin reissuing approximately 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that the state had planned to revoke following federal enforcement pressure. The decision comes despite ongoing corrective action requirements from FMCSA [Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration] and raises fundamental questions about federal enforcement authority when a state openly defies compliance directives. State transportation officials confirmed to sources that the Department of Motor Vehicles will begin restoring the contested licenses to immigrant drivers who received 60-day cancellation notices on November 6. The state has...

Border Patrol agents arrested 42 people with commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants, including 31 from California, who were taken into custody at immigration checkpoints and highways. Another federal immigration operation targeting California trucking companies over two days last week led to the arrests of 45 more people with commercial licenses.

“Commercial drivers are an important part of our economy – our supply chains don’t move and our communities don’t stay connected without them,” a spokesperson for the California agency said. “DMV stands ready to resume issuing commercial driver’s licenses, including corrected licenses to eligible drivers. Given, we are in compliance with federal regulations and state law, this delay by the federal government not only hurts our trucking industry, but it also leaves eligible drivers in the cold without any resolution during this holiday season. We are hopeful the federal government will do the right thing and allow California to reissue...

trucking companies are hiring barely-vetted migrants happy to work long hours for low pay, many of whom don't speak english or understand our driving culture — and they're wreaking havoc on the roads On October 21, a commercial truck collided with an SUV along Interstate 10 a few miles east of Los Angeles. The dashcam footage instantly went viral: we witness the final moments of husband and wife Clarence and Lisa Nelson as their vehicle, stopped in traffic, is vaporized by the truck. Its driver? A 21-year-old illegal immigrant from India, Jashanpreet Singh, who didn’t stop or even attempt to...

A Tennessee truck driver is dead after a Chinese national, who is not proficient in English and has a non-domiciled New York commercial driver’s license (CDL), allegedly crashed a tour bus — now federal transportation officials are investigating how he was cleared to drive. “A Chinese national driving a motorcoach slammed into a vehicle in Tennessee, killing an individual and causing a major traffic jam this week,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote in a post on social media. “And to make matters worse: this driver had a non-domiciled CDL from NY and couldn’t speak English!”

A King County judge set bail at $100,000 for a California truck driver accused in a three vehicle crash on northbound SR 167 near SR 18 in Auburn that killed a 29-year-old Bonney Lake man on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. As we previously reported, Kamalpreet Singh, 25, of Elk Grove, California, was arrested Thursday morning on investigation of vehicular homicide following the crash, according to the Washington State Patrol and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. At Singh’s first appearance hearing, prosecutors argued there was probable cause for his arrest and requested that bail be set at $100,000. After hearing...

Another one! The semi-truck driver who was arrested in a deadly crash in Washington state is an Indian illegal alien who was released into the US by the Biden Regime. 25-year-old Kamalpreet Singh killed a 29-year-old man on the morning of December 11 after he crushed the victim’s vehicle between two trucks while driving northbound on SR 167. Singh likely obtained his CDL in Democrat hellhole of California, since he resided there. He is facing a vehicular homicide charge. The Auburn Examiner reported on the crash: Troopers said three vehicles were traveling in lane one when two of them stopped...

Washington state authorities released an illegal alien truck driver accused of causing a six-vehicle crash involving a school bus after declining to honor a federal immigration detainer, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The crash occurred on December 4 in Lacey, Washington, and resulted in three people being hospitalized. No children were aboard the school bus at the time, authorities said. DHS identified the driver as Juan Hernandez-Santos, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, who federal officials say has multiple prior DUI arrests and was previously deported from the United States twice. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a...

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) shared dash cam video from a recent incident involving an unsecured load of tires hauled by a commercial vehicle driver identified by troopers as a citizen of Kyrgyzstan. OHP shared the video on December 3, 2025. It was captured in November 2025 by OHP Troop E troopers on US-69 in Pittsburg, Oklahoma. Take a look below. Troopers say that “a commercial motor vehicle hauling a load of loose tires lost part of its cargo. The tires bounced over the barrier wall and struck an OHP unit, creating a serious safety hazard.” The driver hauling the...

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with hundreds of senior executives at America’s largest trucking companies. Nearly all say they only recently discovered the massive influx of foreign drivers and motor carriers. Most assumed the trend was gradual; none realized it was exponential. Few had ever heard the term “non-domiciled CDL” until this summer or understood how many drivers with little or no real training have flooded the industry. They failed to understand that despite their own investments in upgraded training and compliance efforts in recent years, that the smallest operators had been handed a massive gift: the ability...

A third of Minnesota’s non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) reviewed in a recent audit by the Department of Transportation (DOT) were illegally issued, Sec. Sean Duffy announced Monday. The review was conducted by the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on “unqualified non-citizens” endangering Americans on the roads. The state has 30 days to come into compliance and revoke the illegally-issued CDLs, or risk losing up to $30.4 million in federal highway funding, a department press release stated. Officials wrote that Minnesota now has two choices going forward — “follow the law...

Another one! A criminal illegal alien semi-truck driver who obtained a CDL in California, killed two people in Bend, Oregon, last week after jackknifing the trailer. Per the DHS: On November 24, 2025, Rajinder Kumar, a criminal illegal alien from India, jackknifed his semi-truck and trailer blocking both lanes of U.S. Highway 20. A Subaru Outback collided with the semi-truck, tragically killing both the driver, William Micah Carter, and passenger, Jennifer Lynn Lower. The DHS said Rajinder Kumar was released into the interior of the US by the Biden Administration. He obtained a CDL by California Governor Gavin Newsom’s DMV....

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy declared on Monday that the "days of a 'Wild Wild West' trucking industry are over" amid the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal alien drivers. In a post on X, Duffy responded to an Associated Press report that read, "BREAKING: Nearly 44% of U.S. truck driving schools could close after a federal review found many may be out of compliance with government rules." BREAKING: Nearly 44% of U.S. truck driving schools could close after a federal review found many may be out of compliance with government rules. https://t.co/VLHKQDT07u— The Associated Press (@AP) December 1, 2025READ MORE:...

Nearly 44% of the 16,000 truck driving schools in the U.S. may be forced to close if they lose their students after a review by the federal Transportation Department found they may not be complying with government requirements. The Transportation Department said Monday that it plans to revoke the accreditation of nearly 3,000 schools unless they can comply with training requirements in the next 30 days. The targeted schools must notify students that their accreditation is in jeopardy. Another 4,500 schools are being warned they may face similar action. Schools that lose accreditation will no longer be able to issue...

The Department’s nationwide audit exposed that Pennsylvania has issued licenses to ineligible and unqualified foreign drivers WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) found Pennsylvania violated existing federal safety regulations by issuing non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) illegally – including to ineligible foreigners without verifying their legal status. The Department will withhold nearly $75 million in federal funding if the state does not immediately revoke these illegally issued licenses and correct dangerous failures USDOT identified in its CDL program. ICE’s recent arrest of a suspected terrorist illegally in...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that state and federal authorities apprehended 31 illegal immigrant commercial truck drivers during a one-day enforcement sweep along Interstate 40, escalating concerns about unvetted and improperly licensed commercial drivers operating nationwide. The joint “commercial vehicle enforcement” operation took place on November 11 in Wheeler County and involved the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). During 105 commercial vehicle inspections, DPS troopers were unable to verify the lawful presence of 31 truck drivers, even though each presented a state-issued...

States across the country have potentially illegally issued about 194,000 Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) to foreign truck drivers who would not meet English language standards set by the Department of Transportation (DOT), Secretary Sean Duffy reveals. Duffy revealed the alarming statistic in an interview on Fox Business Channel, stating that some 200,000 CDLs have been issued to foreign nationals and that of those, 194,000 are suspected of having been issued illegally. “People can’t understand the English language, they can’t read signs, and they don’t know the rules of our road. That’s a problem,” Duffy said. “Americans aren’t safe.” Duffy also...

LEBANON, Ind — Federal immigration authorities have placed a hold on one of the people involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 65 that killed an Indiana National Guardsman and injured three others, the Boone County Sheriff’s Office said. The person, identified as Goderdzi Gujabidze, 56, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was behind the wheel of a car hauler truck when it collided with a military Humvee and a white Subaru on Friday. Police said Gujabidze was later detained after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) notified them of the hold.

The Biden-era sanctuary state policies in California foisted on the state and Americans by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom have once again collided with federal law — this time on America's highways. The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has admitted to illegally issuing 17,000 commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) to foreign nationals who were not legally eligible to hold them, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday. "After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed," Duffy wrote in a statement. "Now that we've exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked....